Oparin Beats Shirov In Playoff, Qualifies For Zurich

Oparin Beats Shirov In Playoff, Qualifies For Zurich

GM Grigoriy Oparin qualified for the 2017 Kortchnoi Zurich Chess Challenge. The 19-year-old grandmaster defeated GM Alexei Shirov 1.5-0.5 in a playoff at the Nutcracker tournament in Moscow. The Nutcracker tournament finished today in the Central Chess House in Moscow. Our previous report covered the classical part; this report covers the rapid portion, held on Wednesday and Thursday. Grigoriy Oparin. | Photo Maria Emelianova. Before the rapid, the "Kings" were enjoying a small lead....

Shirov To Bring Fire On Board To Iceland

Shirov To Bring Fire On Board To Iceland

GM Alexei Shirov is one of the stars at the 2017 Reykjavik Open. The annual open tournament in Iceland will be held in April. Harpa, the venue for the 2017 Reykjavik Open. Before the end of the year, the organizers have secured some big names for the 32nd edition of the Reykjavik Open. The top seeds at the moment are GMs Vidit Santosh Gujrathi, Sergey Movsesian, Alexey Shirov, Gawain Jones, Gata Kamsky, Abhijeet Gupta, Erwin l'Ami, Alexandr Fier, IM Awonder Liang, and GM Torre Eugenio. The...

Why You Lose To Weaker Players

Why You Lose To Weaker Players

Asmara the Cat wrote: I have a problem and I hope you can help me. My problem is that I don’t know how to defeat bad players (well, I’m not so good, but players who play worse than me). In real life, I’ve earned a FIDE rating between 1500 and 1580 during the last several years. In chess tournaments, I can regularly beat players in the 1700-1800 range (I beat an 1822 FIDE yesterday), and my best draw was against a 2001 player. But on Chess.com, my rating never exceeded 1400 in 10...

The Most Amazing Pawn Moves

The Most Amazing Pawn Moves

The little guy doesn't usually get to deliver the coup de grace, but in this video from Simon Williams, it's all about those pawns! Watch and enjoy a host of beautiful and crushing moves all delivered by the smallest of the chess pieces.

ChessCenter: Who Will Win The Grand Chess Tour?

ChessCenter: Who Will Win The Grand Chess Tour?

The Americans Wesley So and Hikaru Nakamura are alive to win the Grand Chess Tour at its final leg in the London Chess Classic, and ChessCenter has full team coverage. Plus, find out what the actor Orlando Jones has to say about chess in an exclusive interview.

Generations Clash In Moscow's Nutcracker Tournament

Generations Clash In Moscow's Nutcracker Tournament

The traditional Nutcracker tournament is under way in Moscow, Russia. After four rounds of classical chess, "experience" (the Kings) has a tiny lead over "youth" (the Princes). Another edition of the annual Nutcracker event was opened on Friday December 16 at the Central Chess House on the Gogolevsky Boulevard in Moscow. The tournament is supported by the Ladya Foundation (for social, educational, innovative and sports projects), the Russian Chess Federation, and Oleg Skvortsov. Alongside...

American Woman - Part I

American Woman - Part I

  Preface:      An official U.S. Women's Chess Championship has existed for nearly 80 years.  The USCF lists 1937 as the first year.  There have been many strong and important women players over the early years but when Diane Savereide appeared and dominated the women's chess arena for almost a decade, women's chess stated taking monumental strides.       With this series of essays I hope to detail at the development of women's chess...

Gunina Scores Tremendous 9/10 To Win London Rapid

Gunina Scores Tremendous 9/10 To Win London Rapid

Valentina Gunina came, saw and conquered. The Russian player was in fantastic shape at the London Super Rapidplay tournament, won with 9/10(!), and left a field of 42 grandmasters behind her. The Super Rapidplay tournament took place on December 17 and 18, the final weekend of the London Chess Classic, in the same venue as the super tournament. It was the biggest and strongest edition of this rapid event ever, with over 400 participants. 43 of them were grandmasters. The top seeds...

Can You Solve Our 2016 Holiday Puzzler?

Can You Solve Our 2016 Holiday Puzzler?

Your favorite annual chess tradition is back. Chess.com is proud to celebrate the holiday season with an all-new puzzler for 2016—and we believe this is the hardest (and most rewarding) quiz yet. The 10 Chess.com members who score the highest on the holiday puzzler will win the prizes below. All ties will be won by the earliest received submission, so send in your answers as soon as you know them. Answers will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Time) on...

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